Privacy   |    Financial   |    Current Events   |    Self Defense   |    Miscellaneous   |    Letters To Editor   |    About Off The Grid News   |    Off The Grid Videos   |    Weekly Radio Show

Trending Topics: fourth amendment

Is Stop And Frisk Actually Gun Control – Or Worse – In Disguise?

Is Stop And Frisk Actually Gun Control – Or Worse – In Disguise?

New York City’s unconstitutional stop and frisk policy has been attracting a lot of attention lately. Yet the media is missing an important part of the story; stop and frisk is actually gun control. Stop and frisk works like this: ...

Read More »

Senator Obama Once Opposed NSA Programs He Now Supports As President

Senator Obama Once Opposed NSA Programs He Now Supports As President

When he was a U.S. senator, Barack Obama supported placing tight restrictions on the surveillance operations intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA) can conduct against average Americans. The proposals Senator Obama backed are similar to ones President Obama ...

Read More »

Online Search Term Ends in Terrorism Task Force Searching Home

Online Search Term Ends in Terrorism Task Force Searching Home

WASHINGTON – If you don’t want your home searched by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, don’t conduct an Internet search for “pressure cookers” and “backpacks.” That may be oversimplifying it, but a blog post Thursday by a national ...

Read More »

Guns Confiscated After Therapist Reports Veteran ‘Not A Viable Threat’

Guns Confiscated After Therapist Reports Veteran ‘Not A Viable Threat’

A veteran had his antique guns confiscated after returning from a visit with his therapist. Arthur Lovi, 72, has been embroiled in an expensive legal battle after Illinois police officers confiscated his guns after the therapist reported what she herself ...

Read More »

Search And Seizure: Your DNA Is No Longer Protected By Fourth Amendment

Search And Seizure: Your DNA Is No Longer Protected By Fourth Amendment

The Supreme Court’s ruling that allows law enforcement to collect DNA samples from arrested suspects without a warrant passed by a 5-4 margin last week with unlikely partners on both sides of the ruling. An uncommon alliance of Justices Ruth ...

Read More »

The Only Argument You Need To Defend Your Right To Privacy

“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government,” Supreme Court Justice William Douglass lamented over sixty years ago. Unfortunately, he was right, as ...

Read More »

Cyber Security Bill Could Erase 4th Amendment Rights

Cyber Security Bill Could Erase 4th Amendment Rights

You might not have heard about CISPA yet, but if the Fourth Amendment is important to you, then the time to fight back against the big brother intrusion is now. Also known as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, ...

Read More »

U.S. Judge Allows Warrantless Video Surveillance

U.S. Judge Allows Warrantless Video Surveillance

GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN – U.S. District Judge William Griesbach ruled yesterday that police are free, in some circumstance, to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a warrant. At issue was whether Drug Enforcement Administration agents had a ...

Read More »

In the Name of the Children: Stealing Our Freedom One Amendment at a Time

In the Name of the Children: Stealing Our Freedom One Amendment at a Time

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly ...

Read More »